Government Matters

The Defense Department’s response to the coronavirus

Veronica Hinton, Principal Director for Civilian Personnel Policy at the Department of Defense, discusses the stop movement order for travel in place at the Defense Department in response to the coronavirus

Modernizing software at the Department of Defense

Peter Ranks, Deputy Chief Information Officer for Information Enterprise at the Department of Defense, details the Pentagon’s plan to decouple hardware and software across the department

Restructuring at DHA hospitals and changing Medical Treatment Facilities

Dr. Barclay Butler, J4, Component Acquisition Executive and Head of Contracting Actions at the Defense Health Agency, explains the changes coming to Medical Treatment Facilities and how they will impact Defense Department employees

How contractors and agencies can work together in coronavirus response

Stan Soloway, President and CEO at Celero Strategies, discusses the most important things contractors and agencies should keep in mind when responding to the coronavirus pandemic

Accenture's approach to doing business with the government

Michael Fox, Managing Director and Head of Federal Sales at Accenture, identifies top trends in government contracting

Shifting the Pentagon's approach to research and development

Tara Murphy Dougherty, CEO of Govini, explains how the Pentagon should change the way it thinks about research and development spending to keep its edge over competitors

The latest on the JEDI contract recompete

Frank Konkel, Executive Editor at Nextgov, discusses the recompete of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract and the Pentagon’s decision to reevaluate the contract

Improving the health intelligence infrastructure

Ron Marks, President at ZPN National Security and Cyber Strategies, identifies weaknesses in health intelligence and explains how to build up the infrastructure in response to the coronavirus

How contractors can prepare for the coronavirus

David Berteau, President and CEO of the Professional Services Council, gives key takeaways for contractors from the coronavirus pandemic and details how contractors should approach the situation

Jeff Neal, Author at ChiefHRO.com, discusses how Chief Human Capital Officers should prepare for the coronavirus pandemic

Senator Angus King (I-ME) explains the new Cyberspace Solarium report and its recommendations for deterring cyber attacks

Preparing for large-scale telework at agencies

Mika Cross, federal workplace expert, discusses how agencies can prepare emergency telework policies and make arrangements to respond to the coronavirus

Unfunded priorities in the proposed FY21 military budget

Mackenzie Eaglen, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, details the military’s biggest unfunded priorities for FY21 and what will happen to those programs

Management reform at the Pentagon

Peter Levine, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses, explains why the Pentagon struggles to reduce waste and how to mitigate the problem

VADM Linda Fagan, Commander of the U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area and Coast Guard Defense Force West, discusses personnel and hardware integration in the military and the Coast Guard’s approach to the changing threat landscape in a special two-part interview from the WEST 2020 conference.

LTG Robert Shea, President and CEO of AFCEA International and VADM Peter Daly, Chief Executive Officer at the U.S. Naval Institute, detail the focus and challenges of each of the military branches

Defense Digital Service opens new West Coast office

Katie Olson, Deputy Director of the Defense Digital Service, discusses the agency’s new office in Mountain View, California, and how it plans to work with the Defense Innovation Unit on unmanned aircraft systems.

The aerospace industry and government contracting

John Luddy, Vice President of National Security and Policy, details the top trends in government contracting as they relate to the aerospace industry.

How contractors can prepare for the coronavirus

Eric Crusius, Partner at Holland & Knight, discusses how the coronavirus could impact government contractors and what they can do to prepare.

Greg Giddens, Partner at Potomac Ridge Consulting, discusses how he’s worked to establish capacity building principles for program management in government.

CAPT Marc Mancher, Principal at Deloitte Consulting, details the growing use of Robotic Process Automation in government and its potential to lighten the workload of federal employees.

Danny Werfel, Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group, explains the government’s trend of scaling back telework privileges and how diseases like the flu and the coronavirus have prompted the private sector to do the opposite.

Shifting the Navy's focus towards information warfare

RADM Christian “Boris” Becker, Commander of Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, discusses NAVWAR and how different Navy offices plan to collaborate on information warfare in a special two-part interview from WEST 2020 in San Diego.

Information warfare in the Great Powers Competition

VADM Brian B. Brown, Commander of Naval Information Forces , details the information warfare enterprise and the new approach he brings to Naval Information Forces.

Acquisition initiatives in the Coast Guard

RADM Michael Johnston, Assistant Commandant for Acquisitions and Chief Acquisition Officer in the Coast Guard, and RDML Douglas Schofield, Director of Acquisition Programs and Program Executive Officer at the Coast Guard, discuss the Coast Guard’s recapitalization efforts and top acquisition priorities in a special two-part interview.

Court rules settlement agreements apply for a "reasonable time"

Dan Blair, Senior Counselor at the Center for Presidential Transition at the Partnership for Public Service, details the new court ruling on settlement agreements and how it impacts federal employees.